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Josh said: |
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> PS: Though the very idea of an "in-print" Gentoo book is in many ways |
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> absurd, as Gentoo is unique among Linux distros for its generally |
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> faster-paced, evolving nature, these draft handbooks present the |
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> best possible approach to actually publishing a "dead tree" Gentoo |
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> guide--something that would be a first for the distro, AFAIK. Given |
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> Gentoo's rapidly changing nature (e.g. fundamental pieces like Portage |
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> and baselayout), the need for a paper Gentoo book might seem obviated. |
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> But I'm strangely attracted to the idea. It seems more doable now that |
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> the draft handbooks have less of a specific Gentoo emphasis. I'd certainly |
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> be interested in seeing Gentoo documentation in print! |
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Like someone else stated, I too have played with the thought of converting |
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the XML to something ready for publishing. In my test, I converted it to |
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LaTeX. An example output can be seen at |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/tmp/handbook.pdf. |
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The process is quite automated although I do have to fix the LaTeX code |
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using a shell script before I start rendering it as PDF. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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